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Well, after taking my lumps with my previous attempts, I'm hoping that team #5 might do better. I've spent a lot of quality time with DiamondDope and this is what I've got with 10 hours to cut-off. I'm playing in Griffith with Wrigley '29, Olympic and Candlestick '62 in my division - 8 opposing LH starting pitchers and 5 right. Other teams in my league are Dunn twice, Griff, Sportsman's '34 and '46, Fenway '67, and Yankees '39 and '56.

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I'm thinking of bolstering my pitching by switching Stanley for Landis, Fosnow for Richert, and adding Russo or Lanier instead of Hiller.

Any thoughts?

Hiller is a stud, keep him.
Your pitching staff is VG for that park--its the perfect park for Richert.
Keep Landis, unless you can somehow get DDiMaggio....

Your offense has 2 big holes:
1) You have six offensive starters who are 15 game injury risks. This is not good at all.
2) You have no slugger, which sometimes really helps with a lineup like this.

Suggestion: Look at possibly replacing Keller with an HR non-injury risk player. Or, if there is a good offensive/defensive CF available, move Landis and Keller to upgrade CF, especially if there are some of the bargain LF's available--Rose, Buford etc.

That's a very interesting team. Don't see a lot of FA options for improvement. Good luck.

Here are the numbers from the cards for Griff:

Vs LHP Vs RHP
Name OBP OPS BR OBP OPS BR
Schalk 0.429 0.766 4.310 0.415 0.734 3.190
Chance 0.521 1.082 14.780 0.483 0.992 11.670
Morgan 0.524 0.978 12.440 0.585 1.166 17.990
Prothro 0.530 1.238 19.710 Walling 0.406 0.986 10.330
Fernandez 0.414 0.917 8.340 0.345 0.791 3.300
Keller 0.519 1.053 13.960 0.527 1.076 14.720
Landis 0.425 0.815 5.930 0.437 0.903 8.460
cobb 0.553 1.214 19.290 0.544 1.192 18.490
AVE 0.489 1.008 12.345 AVE 0.468 0.980 11.019

The numbers for a hitters park get even better, with the averages for Wrigley '29 being:

Vs LHP Vs RHP
OBP OPS BR OBP OPS BR
0.503 1.063 13.999 0.486 1.061 14.056

I agree that injuries will probably be bug me all season. I'll take a look and see what the last minute transactions turn up.